When you define an SUS in the JSS, it defaults to a generic catalog URL that does not resolve (http://su.example.com:8088/index.sucatalog). The actual catalog URL is something more like http://su.example.com:8088/index.sucatalog/content/catalogs/others/index-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog. This makes it not usable when setting the default SUS in "Override Default Policy Settings" in the General Policy settings because the URL set on clients is not resolvable. Is there a reason for this discrepancy, or am I doing something wrong? Instead of using the Override Default Policy Settings I am now using a separate script to se the catalog URL, which seems less elegant. Am I missing something obvious? HOw is the URL even found or defined?

So here is my situation... I have all 10.7.x systems, and I want to auto-mount a network share on login. Systems are NOT bound to any OD/AD account, and based on my highly distributed environment, won't be. I have a Lion server with OD running with some file shares. I need to have shares auto-mounted on all systems, with their individual OD credentials so access to various folders/files is restricted where necessary. So what is the best way to do this? My thought was to somehow add keychain entries for each user with their credentials. Since I only have about 25 users I need to do this for, I don't mind setting a policy for each one if necessary. My goal is that the end-user has as seamless an experience as possible. Then once the keychain entries were existing, mapping the network share would be easy (I think). So that's my thought, though I don't know if that is even possible. Any guidance or suggestions would be very much appreciated!

Has anyone figured out how to stop Adobe Extension Manager from opening at the end of an install for Adobe CS6 created with AAMEE? I've seen this problem mentioned in a couple of places but no solutions have been offered. I tried skipping the 6.0.4 update to Extension Manager, leaving it at 6.0.0.412. That fixed a bunch of errors that were appearing in Extension Manager, but I can't figure out how to stop it from launching altogether. It still opens to a EULA that needs to be accepted and then displays an error that says "The extension 'Adobe Flash Professional Toolkit for CreateJS' does not contain a valid signature. The extension will not be installed." -- Jorge

Hi All, I have just received the first 13" Retina MBP and it's another painful case of new OS build and no worky with my 10.7.5 NB servers /Base 10.7.5 OS. Can anyone confirm whether these new models (10,2) will only work with Mountain Lion? I haven't been able to find out otherwise. I went through the whole painful process of making separate NB and Base OS images when the first round of Retina Display's came out but here I'm thinking without some firmware/driver hacking these new ones will only run 10.8. Was delaying the inevitable to 10.8 as my company has policies not to upgrade for at least 6 months after a major release but the way Apple are moving toward yearly releases this will have to change. CheersT

Hello all, I've run into an issue with the NetBoot/SUS Appliance has halted all progress in evaluating the Casper Suite. When logged into the web page for appliance administration, I am unable to upload any NetBoot images. I've tested this on multiple browsers and client OS versions. The button simply doesn't respond. No prompts, no errors, no upload file dialog, nothing (In Safari). When I tried in Google Chrome, I at least got an error: external image link I got around that by simply mounting the smb share by guessing smb://hostaddress/NetBoot. Once I uploaded my .nbi to that directory, it showed properly in the NetBoot Appliance Administration page. I entered in the server's IP address for the subnet (not sure if that is the accurate information to place there) and I entered our mask. When I press the "Enable NetBoot" button, nothing happens in all browsers I attempt to enable in. external image link I've got no ideas left as to what to try n

I have "borrowed" my first script, thanks Rob, and started to learn how to do things the easy way. This script counts the number of cycles on the battery. My issue is that the script runs on MBPs that are on network segments pointing to a secondary server after syncing to the master:Downloading http://macserverwc02.school.org:80/CasperShare/Scripts//battery.cs...Running Script battery.cs...Script Exit Code:0Script Result: <result>31</result> but for machines on the segments pointing to the master the script is failing with: Downloading http://macserverwc01.school.org:80/CasperShare/Scripts//battery.cs...Error: The script could not be found on the server. What am I missing?

Ok where do I get the self service application? The documentation says link here for the self service.tar.gz file and there is not active link. Please bear with me as this may be a dumb question but I have been using Casper for a while but just now exploring the use of self service. Thanks in advance.

I am new to self service and experimenting with it. I cannot seem to figure out how to scope the delivery of the self service app to just certain machines in the JSS. Is there a way to do this? I can see how to scope the policies but I don't want all my machines to get the actual self service application. Thoughts?

Good morning/afternoon everyone, I have been begun to fill our casper repository with all sorts of software but I am still unclear on the correct way to make the packages custom settings(.plists, custom settings, etc) default for all users when the machine is imaged. The specific program I am referring to is Google Chrome. The way I have been trying to do this is by starting a normal snapshot with Composer, then installing Google Chrome and adjusting it's settings, then creating the package afterwards. I tried changing the user name in the package to the local account we have installed on all images by standard but that isn't working. Does any one have any suggestions? Thanks to all!

I'm using Self Service to install a few things, and I've made sure the setting in Settings > Computer Management Framework Settings > Self Service are setup to "End users do not need to authenticate locally to install Self Service Items" Most packages install just fine in the past, but I do have a package that keeps prompting for end user password. Any hints on where to start to diagnose why this is happening?

FYI, doesn't seem like the word got out to everyone...AAMEE forum for enterprise deployment: http://forums.adobe.com/community/download_install_setup/creative_suite_enterprise_deployment

hi guys Was wondering if you can help me. For my scripts i usually use below for the currently logged in user ls -l /dev/console | cut -d " " -f4 this returns tkimpton@rufusleonard.hq Im trying to work out how to strip out @rufusleonard.hq so i am left with tkimpton. Any ideas?

Hi I have been looking to many post... and trying many things... looks like i can get something to work... We have Casper Suite since a month... and here's what i want... We have a Cart with iPad.... they will be managed from a laptop on the Cart, not managed by the Casper suite (for now) but i want them enrolled also into CAsper database so i can keep track of inventory.... I am trying to enroll them automatically from configurator... i did a profile first with generic wifi settings which is working fine... Then i downloaded the enrollement profile from Casper, put it in configurator and deploy it... But everytime on every ipad i need to manually select install bla bla bla and so on... is there a way to automatically without touching the ipad to enrol those exisiting or new ipad from configurator ?

I want a policy to trigger when a user logs in to a machine for the first time (imagine a new user getting a new computer). I don't want the policy to ever trigger on machines that are already existing in the JSS, only a machine that has been recently given to a new user (or a machine that has just had the Casper agent installed for the first time). I'm basically trying to have all new imaged machines execute a FileVault encryption policy, but I don't want it to go to any of my existing 10.8 users. Currently I'm running Casper Suite 8.6 and I'm really only concerned about targeting Mountain Lion systems.

Hi all, I'm having weird problems with the MountNetworkShare.sh . Nothing has been modified except to input the network path but it returns with: /usr/sbin/jamf is version 8.62 Executing Policy Run Script mountNetworkShare.sh... Creating directory structure for /Library/Application Support/JAMF/Downloads/ Downloading http://<serveraddressremoved>:80/CasperShare/Scripts/mountNetworkShare.sh... Running script mountNetworkShare.sh... Script exit code: 2 Script result: /private/tmp/mountNetworkShare.sh: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `newline' /private/tmp/mountNetworkShare.sh: line 1: `<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">' It looks like it's converting it to a html doc and can't execute but why???

Hey guys, I am working with self service and currently trying to get all of the packages for our environment created and scoped. My only question(maybe I am missing something) is if anyone knows whether or not Self-Service has the ability to recognized applications that are already installed, or policies that have already been run? Thanks for any insight :)

More of a question really, and maybe I am just not seeing it, there used to be a place under my assets that gave a link to all discussions and other posts that I either participated in or started and I don't see that anymore. I know I can get email notifications when someone posts on a discussion that I have participated in but it can be nice to be able to just go in quickly and find those incase I wanted to update the info that I have already posted or add info to it. Just wondering if this is there and I am just not seeing it or if there is a plan to add this back in. Any info would be great, other than that love the new site.

I've searched for a solution as well as tried to create my own and I'm running out of ideas.I need to remove some icons from the dock as well as add MS Office 2012 icons. Using casper Dock policy once per user at logon doesn't work as it removed Downloads and Documents (works fine when using every15 trigger, but that's not a solution considering the dock might change 15 minutes from login time). I tried using applescript, but it fails at logon because profile is not completed yet. I tried using sh script to add the applescript to the login items. It works when testing manually, however when I add sh script to login policy it never adds it to login items to be executed after user has completely logged in. Here are the scripts I have:try do shell script "Killall Dock"end trytell application "System Events" set dockPlistFile to property list file "~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist" tell dockPlistFile tell

Ran into a problem when I tried adding some MCX profiles that were created to be used with 10.6 on a test Mountain Lion machine. The profiles work correctly but when I remove the machine from the MCX profile, the settings keep reappearing in /Library/Managed Preferences, and even if I delete the files manually they reappear after a reboot seemingly without even checking in with the JSS. Is there something that I'm missing or should I recreate as much of the functionality as I can with the Profile Manager method?

So this issue was reported elsewear a year ago, though I never saw it happen until I just updated our base image to 10.7.5 > apps store InstallESD, pure vanilla InstaDMG. http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1240725 Newly imaged machine cannot login as local admin or AD domain user. After entering credentials the screen flashes gray and then back to the auth. prompt. The reboot button also will not work. Pretty much identically reported, though no solid solutions are mentioned. Has anyone here seen this and nailed down 'why'?

Hello community! I am either still exhausted from the JNUC, or I am just overly confused. Would anyone mind helping me through changing a non-http distribution point into an http distribution point? My main distribution server is running OS X Server 10.7.5, and the CasperShare directory is located in /Shared Items/CasperShare. I have https access allowed on this server (IE you type the xx.xx.xx.xx address and you get the Lion Server Splash Page), but do not have any idea what to do when it comes to setting this up. Note: I am changing to HTTP on this one server because otherwise Self Service runs into an issue due to other share points that clients have mounted on their machines. According to the lectures at JNUC, turning on HTTP access should fix this issue. Thanks in advance for the help!

I'm running 8.43 on a Lion server (that only runs JSS and SUS) and when I attempt to view a smart group in JSS it takes 5+ minutes if it loads at all. Any ideas on how to remedy this? The group in question only contains 9 machines.

We are pleased to have Michael Crispin from Duke University walk us through how he is able to deploy and manage Dual-Boot machines in his environment with the help of Casper, Boot Runner, and Winclone. We'll also have Tim Perfitt from Twocanoes Software (Creators of Winclone and BootRunner) available to answer any questions you might have regarding the management of Dual-Boot machines. For more information about Winclone or Boot Runner, please visit: http://www.twocanoes.com

Hi all,Is a managed preference executed if it appears in the /Library/Managed Preferences folder? Or does it need to appear in this folder as well as update the plist that the managed preference is supposed to address. For example, I am using managed preferences to disable AirDrop. The managed preference: com.apple.NetworkBrowser.plist appears in the /Library/Managed Preferences folder but it doesn't appear to have been re-written /Library/Prefences/com.apple.NetworkBrowser.plist........Should it have edited the file in /Library/Prefences/ or does having it in /Library/Managed Preferences mean that is is being applied? Thanks!

This session is taking place in McGuire Proscenium Stage (Level 4) from 10:45am-11:45am. As of today Phil Hardin has worked on—and is still working on—a total of 19 one-to-one deployments within the Rowan-Salisbury school system. In this session, Phil will reveal how he has saved time and avoided common pitfalls while tackling these intense projects. He'll also touch on some issues that IT administrators commonly encounter during one-to-one deployments, and how he is using Aerohive and the Casper Suite to avoid them. This session is geared towards both new and experienced Casper Suite users. Have you worked on a 1:1 deployment, and have something to share? Do you have any questions you want answered? Please leave us comments here, and we will try and get to them during the Q & A session next week. Only 4 days to go! Can't wait to see everyone at the Guthrie.